Joseph Rudyard Kipling was born on December 30, 1865 to John and Alice Kipling. At the time of Joseph’s birth the Kipling’s had recently arrived in India. They had moved to the town of Bombay (now Mumbai) from England with plans of starting a new life and helping the British government run the continent. Young Joseph Kipling loved the exciting life that came with living in India. He often explored local markets with his nanny and sister, he learned the language at a young age, and fell in love with the country and culture. This life he loved was torn away from him when his parents sent him back to England to begin a formal British education at the age of 6. He lived in Southsea, England, where he attended school and lived with a foster family, the Holloways. Kipling struggled to fit in at school, and his new home did not provide a loving environment. Mrs. Holloway was unkind, beating and bulling her young foster son. Kipling found comfort in books and stories. With few friends, he spent his time reading. He esteemed authors such as Daniel Defoe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Wilkie Collins. Mrs. Holloway was disapproving of Kipling’s reading, inciting Kipling to sneak his books around her. He even pretended to play in his room by moving furniture along the floor while he read. By the age of 11, Kipling was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. A visitor to the Holloway home noticed the unhealthy condition of the child and immediately contacted his mother. His mother rushed to England and rescued Joseph from the foster family and placed him in a new school in Devon. There, Kipling succeeded and discovered his talent for writing, eventually becoming editor of the school newspaper. Kipling’s parents did not have enough money to send hi... ... middle of paper ... ... of the efforts. In 1915, he travelled to France to report firsthand from the trenches. He encouraged his son to enlist, and when he was rejected for eyesight problems, Kipling managed to get John a position as a second lieutenant with the Irish Guard. Later that year, the Kiplings received word the John had gone missing in France. Kipling set off for France to find John, but nothing came of his search, his son’s body never found. He returned to England to grieve the loss of another child. Kipling continued to write through the last decades of his life, but his days of writing children’s stories had passed. Eventually grief and age took their toll on Kipling and his wife. Kipling suffered from a painful ulcer, and died on January 18, 1936. His ashes were buried next to the graves of authors Thomas Hardy and Charles Dickens in the Poets’ Corner at Westminster Abbey.
In 1979 he seeked out medical attention for his sore throat and discovers tongue cancer which caused his death. He died on March 25, 1980, at the age of 52.
...of sadness (Id.). In July 1963, Lewis went into a coma and was expected to die; he ended up coming through the coma and resigned his professorship at Cambridge. (Id.). On November 22, 1963, C.S. Lewis died a week before his 65th birthday on Friday (Id.). He passed at the Kilns and was buried in his churchyard not far away (Id.). This was the same day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated and English writer Aldous Huxley died (Lewis Foundation).
Neglect and painful insecurity tainted both Truman Capote and Perry Smith’s childhoods, resulting in common fears and experiences that Capote translates in his writing of In Cold Blood. Truman Capote lacked a stable childhood upbringing, internalizing a fear of abandonment, which he echoes through Perry Smith. Capote demonstrates an intense emotional attachment with one of the killers, Smith. Throughout the five years in which Capote worked on his project, he thoroughly examined Smith and ultimately befriended him because Smith’s troubled childhood that resembled his own. Capote’s parents, Lillie Mae and Arch, divorced at a young age, leaving Capote in the care of others, and as a result, he spent much of his childhood in Monroeville, Alabama (Truman Capote about the Author). This abandonment by his parents haunted Capote and allowed others to harass him for his effeminate ways. Although he found comfort in his lifelong friend Harper Lee, his relatives and friends in Alabama failed Capote by not providing the love and understanding of a mother and father (Truman Capote Biography). Smith’s youth, although more severe, paralleled Capote’s. In Smith’s childhood, “there was evidence of severe emotional deprivation…This deprivation may have involved prolonged or recurrent absence of one or both parents, a chaotic family life in which the parents were unknown, or an outright rejection of the child by one or both parents with the child being raised by others'" (Capote 191). Smith’s abandonment was due to his mother who “turned out to be a disgraceful drunkard” (Capote 78), and his father who deserted Smith after his separation. Because of his parents’ neglect, orphanages became the primary caretake...
Herman Melville had an interesting life. He was born on August 1st, 1819 to Allen and Maria Melvill of New York. At a young age, he came down with scarlet fever and as a result had weakened eyesight for the remainder of his life. His family was a well-respected one, then their import business fell through and they moved to Albany, New York. Their finances were desperate. During this time they changed the spelling of their last name and added an e, to be spelled, Melville.
Frederick Ogden Nash was born August 19, 1902, in New York. His family thought that education was very important, and this was the basis for his love of languages and writing. At the age of seven, he got an eye infection, so he had to stay in a darkened room for almost a year. During this time, his mother schooled him, and this helped him develop his incredible memory. By the tender age of 10, he was already writing the humorous poetry that he became famous for.
Ernest Hemmingway is one of the greatest writers of all time. Like many great authors he was influenced by the world in which he lived. The environment that surrounded him influenced Hemmingway. These included such things as serving in the war and living in post war areas where people went to forget about the war. Another influence on his writings was his hobbies. He loved the great outdoors. He spent a lot of his time deep sea fishing and enjoying bull fighting. These influences had an impact on Hemmingway and they were expressed in his writing.
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“The Widow at Windsor” is quick paced with a rhyming technique that deceives the reader into thinking the topic will be light when in reality the poem is emotionally intense and reveals a difficult lifestyle. Sir George MacMunn refers to Kipling’s style, in his book Rudyard Kipling: Craftsman, as being refreshing yet frequently under scrutiny by the critics of Kipling’s day. Undoubtedly, it is this style that catches the eye of the modern reader.
Jerome David Salinger was born on January 1, 1919 in Manhattan, New York City. His father, Sol, a Polish Jew, and his mother, Marie, an Irish Catholic, owned a meat and cheese importing business. Salinger attended public schools until the age of thirteen, were he was enrolled in the prestigious McBurney School in Manhattan, but he was dismissed with failing grades after a year. He then attended and grad...
Louisa May Alcott died on March 6, 1888 in Boston, Massachusetts which was also the day of her father’s funeral. She had been suffering from the slow effects of mercury poisoning which she got during her Civil War service by the medicine she was given for typhoid pneumonia. Alcott was buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord. The whole 56 years Louisa Alcott lived she never led the life of the common woman. She was her own person, did what she wanted to do, and wrote so well that she is greatly remembered today. Her biggest achievement was the publishing of “Little Women” and the book has never gone out of print. Her vast majority of short stories, poems, novels, and many more were and still are very popular. Louisa led a free life and succeeded greatly.
It's a pretty bleak picture he paints, cloaked in finery and delight but at the core full of stoic acceptance of misery, hardship and death. While there is a good deal of this that Kipling probably believed, even a casual examination of his own life suggests that this book is more of a bare-bones explication of the fundamental issues than a fully fleshed out portrait of how an artist ought to live.
To start, consider that he was raised in an extremely strict household. He was born and raised in Oak Park, Illinois. He had an equitably happy, upper middle class childhood. As he grew older he started having feelings of bitterness towards his parents, mainly his mother who was seen as selfish and magisterial by Hemingway. When he was in his teens he became interested in literature. He wrote stories for his high school newspaper and subscribed poems and stories to the school magazine. When he graduated in 1917 he took a junior reporter position on the "Kansas City Star", writing feature stories. In his journalism he began to show interest in powerful yet objective writings of violence, despair, and emotional disturbance, which dominated his writings. He also participated in World War I, which greatly impacted his writing, as a Red Cross ambulance driver in Italy. He was wounded in both legs by a shrapnel explosion. He fell in love with the nurse that was caring for him, who left him not long after for an older man. He returned to Oak Park, and also upper Michigan to write about his childhood, teenage, and wartime years. In 1921 he married Hadley Richardson, divorced March 10, 1927, he moved to Paris to further his writing career. Here he quit journalism as a result of his maturing as a distinguished writer. From the maturity he had accomplished he was able to write over twenty-five books. He eventually returned to journalism to support himself.
Rabindranath Tagore Asia’s first Noble Laureate was born on 7 May, 1861 at Jorasanko in the heart of Calcutta. His family was famous for its progressive socio-religious and cultural innovations during 19th Bengal Renaissance. He was the fourteenth and youngest son of Maharishi Debendranath Tagore and Sarda Devi and grandson of Dwarkanath Tagore. His grandfather Dwarkanath was a religious and social reformer and worked unceasingly for ...
“If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.” –Rudyard Kipling. Rudyard Kipling was born on December 30, 1865 at Bombay, India. Kipling spent the first six years of his idyllic life in India until his family moved back to England in 1871. After six months of living in England his parents abandoned him and his three year old sister, leaving them with the Holloway family, which in turn mistreated him physically and psychologically, this left him with a sense of betrayal and scars mentally, but it was then Kipling started to grow a love for literature. Between 1878 and 1882 he attended the United Services College at Westward Ho in north Devon. The College was a new and very rough boarding school where, nearsighted and physically frail, he was once again teased and bullied, but where, nevertheless, he developed fierce loyalties. In 1882 Kipling returned to India, where he spent the next seven years working in various capacities as a journalist and editor. Kipling also started writing about India itself and the Anglo-Indian society, This is where Kipling's admiration began to one day be a part of the British military. By 1890 Kipling returned to England and was a well know poet as well as an author. Kipling was the highest paid poet of his time by the age of 32. Rudyard Kipling’s incredible support for the British war effort caused his poems, such as Boots, The Last of the Light Brigade, and Tommy, to convey the theme that soldiers are rarely seen as heroes until freedom is at stake.
...in Camden. His final years of life were both rewarding and frustrating. He was finally receiving recognition for his works but he was also disappointed in the way America was developing after the Civil War and his health was also getting worse.